Don Lavoie Memorial Essay Competition Winners for 2012
The Society for the Development of Austrian Economics is pleased to announce the winners of the Don Lavoie Memorial Graduate Student Essay Competition. Three prizes are given, each worth $1000, to be used to pay expenses to attend the Southern Economic Association meetings this November in New Orleans, LA, where the winners will present their work on a special panel at 8:00am, Friday, November 16, 2012. Prize awards are contingent on attending the SEA meetings and the SDAE’s annual business meeting and awards banquet.
This year's winners are:
Jayme S. Lemke
George Mason
University
“Jurisdictional Competition and Married Women’s Property Rights”
Nicolás CachanoskySuffolk University
“The International Effects of Monetary Policy on the Capital Structure of Production: The Cases of Colombia and Panama (2002-2007)”
Thomas K. Duncan
George Mason University
“The Overlooked Costs of the Permanent War Economy: A Market Process Approach”
Their papers will be available online shortly at http://it.stlawu.edu/sdae/.
Thank you all for your submissions to the Fall 2012 Don Lavoie Memorial Graduate Student Essay Competition. The Evaluation Committee was very pleased with the quality of work and consideration that was reflected in all of this year’s submissions.
With such uniformly outstanding work, it was quite challenging to select only 3 winners from the 16 submissions by demonstrably competitive and first-class young intellectuals.
This year's prize committee consisted of:
Peter Boettke, George Mason University
Steven Horwitz, St. Lawrence University
David Prychitko, Northern Michigan University
Emily Chamlee-Wright, Beloit College
Virgil Storr, Mercatus Center at George Mason University
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